Posts by Entropius

It's extremely rare that you find yourself waiting on the CPU, ever. In general, the answer is "If you have to ask if it's worth it to get a faster processor, it isn't." Note that laptop processors have really not gotten much...

Quote: Originally Posted by Revenent 1. When was the last time you used NTFS and why did you trash it? 2. Not natively. There may be 3rd party vendors who are willing to make a file system driver for...

1. The last time I tried NTFS write I wound up trashing the partition. Is it stable now? 2. Can Windows (Vista?) boxes read ext3 now?

The main limitation of NTFS is that the file system format is not open. Good luck getting your external drive to mount read-write on a Linux system. Since the main advantage (to me) of portable disks is that they'll work on anything,...

TDP does NOT have much to do with battery life. Those values reflect the absolute maximum sustained power draw of the processor. It's short for "thermal dissipation power": how much heat per second the case needs to be able to...

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The machine in my sig appears to be on its last legs, and I'm not going to be able to be without a computer for an extended amount of time. So, if this one has to go, I'd like to have a replacement picked out. What I absolutely...

I need both. Original post edited; sorry.

Mine was lost in an airport, so I need a replacement power cord and AC adapter (the entire apparatus between the wall and the laptop) for my eMachines M6811. Many other machines use this same AC adapter, including: eMachines M5300...